Lamont, Corliss

Challenge to McCarthy [Basic Pamphlets on Civil Liberty, No. 7]

New York: Basic Pamphlets, 1951.

Stapled wraps; 3.75 by 5.5 inches; 31 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. minimal shelf handling wear. 1954.

This is a sharp critique of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s tactics during the Red Scare of the 1950s. In this concise pamphlet, Lamont exposes the dangers of McCarthyism, emphasizing how it undermines the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, particularly the right to free speech and due process. 

Lamont argues that the widespread fear of communism should not justify the political repression and blacklisting that McCarthy promoted. His work stands as a passionate defense of civil liberties in the face of political hysteria and a call for Americans to resist the erosion of their fundamental rights.

Subjects: McCarthyism, First Amendment Rights, Political Repression, American Democracy, Political Philosophy, Civil Liberties, Cold War History.

Item #20754

Price: $24.00